No matter how much you eat healthy or incorporate physical activities in your daily routine you might not be able to achieve your fitness goals, if you are not taking enough rest. By ‘rest’ I mean sleep, although a natural and universal process but its significance is extraordinary. Sleep is the dormant superpower we all have but we just need to unlock it, but how? Let’s find out.
Sleep is a complex physiological process that plays an important role in maintaining our health. During sleep, our body undergoes certain restoration processes like recovering damaged tissues, consolidating memories and even controlling emotions. So, it is important for us to have quality sleep for adequate time if we want our health be perfect. But in recent times, sleep culture is not given much priority and people celebrate their hustling culture without thinking what adverse effect it could have on their health due to lack of sleep. Society have created a delusion that sleep is unproductive, but in reality, it’s the opposite. According to some reports,
- 1 in every 3 people (adults) are not getting enough of sleep every day.
- 61% of Indians are sleep deprived.
- 35% of the world’s population doesn’t have quality sleep for adequate time.
These reports are suggestive of the fact that sleep deficiency has become a serious problem for major part of the population. But, now its time to raise awareness and help people to improve their sleeping habits.
What are the ill effects of sleep deficiency?
According to some experts, lack of sleep is responsible for a number of chronic diseases like hypertension, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes etc. Some experts also claims that if you are sleeping less than 6 hours a day then the chances of dying from cancer goes up by 300% and chances of dying from heart-attack goes up by 200%. Now looking at these you can understand how deadly it could be.
What is your ideal sleep time according to your age :
| Age | Ideal sleeping time (Everyday) |
| 3 to 5 years | 10 to 13 hours |
| 6 to 12 years | 9 to 12 hours. |
| 13 to 18 years | 8 to 10 hours. |
| 19 years and above | 7-8 hours. |
What changes will be, if you improve your sleep time?
There are various benefits of adequate sleep like you will feel much active, fresh and energetic which will help you to be productive all day long. The risks of getting affected by chronic diseases will reduce a lot. If you are gaining or losing weights, with quality sleep time you can find better results. It is found that sleeping for 8 or more hours, helps to boost memory and learning.
Sleep is the most integral part of maintaining good health. According to some researches, its clearly seen that if one is not sleeping for 8 hours or more, he is likely to have no change in his physical health in spite of eating healthy or doing workouts. So, my suggestion for you will be, sleep for adequate time, don’t spoil your health by following the hustling culture. Because your health will decide your productivity and prosperity. Stay healthy, stay safe!!